It is possible depending on the technology used. I personally don’t think the earthquake issue is as big of a deal as people think it is. We’re talking quakes so small you don’t even feel them.

I don’t know if this would compound and lead to larger ones if there were more facilities. If so it could be a bigger concern.

I guess it’s not technically renewable but the reservoir of geothermal energy is so vast it’s hard to see how it could be used up and it has minimal environmental impacts.

Ah, this is probably what I wasn’t understanding. Thanks for answering all of my questions. I can see how that might be a problem.

Seems like Mastodon needs some way to handle threading better before this could really work then. Kind of surprising that they don’t have that.

I still hope there is some way we can connect with the entire fediverse at some point in the future but we’ll have to see what form that might take.

Couldn’t you subscribe to a user the same way you do to a community, and see their posts show up in your feed? Is there some reason I am missing that can’t work?

I’m not saying Lemmy should change its whole schtick and become like Mbin, but if there is a small change that can allow more widespread connections across the fediverse, it’s hard to see the downside.

Well this is why I think Lemmy allowing individual follows is the best solution. It’s completely compatible with the interface here. If I am understanding correctly, your suggestion would only allow you to see people who opt into posting as part of those groups. But what I want is to be able to reach and communicate with anyone on the fediverse, no matter the platform. I think this is really only going to work by connecting individual users with one another, which there’s currently no way to do.

While Reuters is obviously written from a neoliberal perspective, I think as long as you are aware of that, their coverage is fine. It’s very fact based. It’s designed to provide information for investors who are trying to make money from current events, so they have an incentive to do accurate coverage, but of course they will mainly cover things that are relevant to the finance world.

How would that work exactly? Make hashtags into “communities” or something?

I think the interoperability of the Fediverse is its main advantage. We don’t need to be constrained by what we previously thought our focus was before the ideals of the fediverse were mainstream. If people don’t want to follow individuals there’s nothing that would force them to, but I think being able to connect with much wider portion of the fediverse would really help Lemmy grow.

If there’s another, better way to do this then I’m open to it but allowing the following of individual accounts seems like a very simple and easy way to accomplish this.

I don’t understand this mentality. Reddit allows this, and it seems like it wouldn’t require much retooling of anything.

Sure, I could move to these other services but I don’t want to leave the slrpnk community. While I’m increasingly frustrated with the state of Lemmy and particularly the devs, our instance is still great.

So when is Lemmy going to support following users? Seems like a major missing feature to me.

Did they bring back the porn? I thought it was banned.